Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a BB. Known as "Quick Kill," the program is currently being taught to some 1,300 recruits each week at Fort Benning, Ga., by late fall will become part of the basic infantry course in all twelve U.S. Army training centers. "Quick Kill is for the shot you've got to make when you don't have time to line up your sights," says Colonel William Koob, 47, director of weapons at Benning. "When it's either kill or be killed." After a day of instruction and the expenditure per man of 800 BBs (which cost...
DONNA C. SCHEIBE Fort Benning...
...month's treatment for an adult-from growths of common bacteria found in the human colon. Dr. Hill is still enthusiastic about the drug and will soon have an abundant supply of it for further trial. Milwaukee's Miller Brewing Co. is closing down part of a Fort Worth brewery and donating fermentation equipment for enzyme production to Wadley's research institute. With the brewery equipment Dr. Hill expects to increase production within the next few months by at least 100 times...
Married. George David Aiken, 74, five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont; and Lola Pierotti, fiftyish, his administrative assistant; he for the second time (his first wife died last year), she for the first; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; at Fort Myer...
...father was a New York City Sanitation Department street sweeper who never went beyond the second grade. The second oldest of seven children, Joe always wanted to be "an achiever," and in Fort Hamilton, an achiever had to be handy with his fists. A veteran of more than 100 rumbles, Joe was put on probation by a juvenile court after one particularly bloody street fight. "When I was in my first year, I failed out of Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn," he said in his address. "Not long after, I enrolled in Bay Ridge High School at night...